Arrival and Departure

I had a busy flocking weekend, finishing up some units that I had it my storage trays for a while. In addition to the Nasseurs, I also did three units of British troops (two shown here).

This is General Picton--famous for his rather unique sartorial sense (or lack thereof). According to legend, he even showed up to a battle in his pajamas. In any case, he was known for wearing a trademark top hat, shown here.

I like painting British generals; Prussians tend to be uniformly plain (as one might expect Prussian to be), and French all tend to have the same blue and gilt uniforms, but the British officers were all over the map, from dandies like Paget to Wellington's simple blue coat and all sorts of other clothes.

Here is the 23rd Foot (Royal Welsh Fusiliers). As a historically elite formation, they wore blue facings and all-white shako plumes, almost identical to the three guard regiments (whose facings were a darker blue).

The second regiment I flocked was the 29th Foot. It wore yellow facings--like several other foot regiments in Spain--but it was distinctive for drafting is drummers from the West Indies (fourth from the left in this picture).

In addition, they also wore brown leather backpacks, unlike the black ones the other British regiments wore, but you can't see it in the picture, unfortunately. You can, though, see the white over red plumes that line regiments wore (which made the guard/fusilier units distinctive in their all-white plumes).

That pretty much wraps up the painting for Wellington's army at Talevera. I'll post cavalry pictures and Wellington himself once I get them flocked (still waiting on the machine shop for their bases).